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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh
And that's my point.
The Middle East may not have changed, but its importance to the rest of the world has. Nowadays, people care about what happens there. It's relevant to quite a few things, including what people pay to fill their cars' tank when they go to work. In 00, they don't, and it isn't.
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The only thing changed is now they fill their cars with electricity or hydrogen. As such, they still care about having a steady reliable power source to keep their cars running. Talibia's attempt to take control of all Union electric power was thus given the appropriate response. The people in 00 merely diverted their attention from Middle East to the Pillars and pipes.
What matters isn't
where the power is coming from, but that power is coming out.